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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1949
Page
3
A collage of jokes and wartime quips contrasts trivial domestic lines with frontline lines. It references a burglar scene, social snubs, and humorous dialects, plus World War II era banter about Rommel’s troops and a Yankee sergeant guiding prisoners.
A boy asks for medicine good for man or beast. The Druggist asks the reason and the boy explains a mule ran away with their hired man and a call reported someone hurt, but the voice was unclear.
The weak Congress under the Articles of Confederation set precedents shaping the nation. The 1784 ordinance treated unsettled lands as territories ready for future statehood, promising equal status with existing states. The 1785 ordinance granted vast land to public schools, empowering education nationwide.
A long discussion on how television dominates American living rooms shaping conversation and leisure. It notes viewers' obsession with screens, preference for immediacy, and a shift from books and newspapers to showmanship driven entertainment across many programs and channels.
Armour and Co. omits its preferred dividend as meat prices drop 20 to 30 percent. Steaks and chops are valued near their weight in gold. Ford cars feature a new design, but the strike remains the same at both ends and in any color so long as it is dark blue.
In a station feature Inez Gerhard profiles Vanessa Brown a 20 year old college graduate and actress chosen as maid of all star cast for Paramount's The Heiress. The piece notes her beauty blue eyes chestnut hair and dual work on radio stage and writing with three syndicate stories.
John Miljan left films two years ago to run an avocado ranch in Vista California but resumes acting in Mrs. Mike, the Powell Keyes feature from United Artists. Five glamour girls recognize his voice from Mutual’s Scattergood Baines where Wendell Holmes plays the title role. Holmes has led romantic pairings with Joan Fontaine, Dorothy McGuire, Veronica Lake, Claire Trevor and Madeleine Carroll and top impressions Winston Churchill.
Valeria ends a two month romance with Eliot Harvey at Newfane Lake and tells him the feeling was surface level. She accepts Doug Metcalf’s invite to the Country Club ball, where Eliot appears with Sheelah Jackson. The night ends with a tense tension as they retreat to an alcove.
In a crowded venue on a terrace Valeria and Eliot share a bench behind shrubs. Eliot, distraught and tearful, pleads that he loves her and demands she return, contradicting Valeria’s doubt as he speaks through his intoxication and pride.
The narrator notes casual acceptance of an engagement breakup revealing a sham Don Juan pretense. Sheelah feels contempt and prideful doubt, then turns away from him to seek dependable Doug.
The text notes iron was discovered by primitive man in campfire embers or meteorites. It states iron tools were used in constructing the pyramids around 3000 B C and describes ancient iron production in fires on windward banks, pits, or rock furnaces with bellows.
A readable crossword clue list with across and down entries ranging from 1 across to 46 down including slimmed hints for parts of speech and short definitions for common puzzle answers. The grid references appear missing but the clues cover a variety of topics from chemistry to geography.
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